xii, 596 pages ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York : Signet Classic, 1985

Lysistrata / Aristophanes, translated by Douglass Parker -- The Menaechmus twins / Plautus, translated by Lionel Casson -- The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare -- The misanthrope / Molière, translated by Donald M. Frame -- The inspector general / Nikolai Gogol, translated by Robert Saffron -- A fitting confusion (Tailleur pour Dames) / Georges Feydeau, translated by Norman R. Shapiro -- Candida / Bernard Shaw -- Laughter : essay on the meaning of the comic / Henri Bergson, translated by Maurice Charney -- The joke and its relation to the unconscious / Sigmund Freud, translated by Maurice Charney -- Seven aspects of the comic hero / Maurice Charney -- Errors in comedy : a psychoanalytic theory of farce / Barbara Freedman

Lysistrata / Aristophanes, translated by Douglass Parker -- The Menaechmus twins / Plautus, translated by Lionel Casson -- The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare -- The misanthrope / Moliere, translated by Donald M. Frame -- The inspector general / Nikolai Gogol, translated by Robert Saffron -- A fitting confusion (Tailleur pour Dames) / Georges Feydeau, translated by Norman R. Shapiro -- Candida / Bernard Shaw -- Laughter : essay on the meaning of the comic / Henri Bergson, translated by Maurice Charney -- The joke and its relation to the unconscious / Sigmund Freud, translated by Maurice Charney -- Seven aspects of the comic hero / Maurice Charney -- Errors in comedy : a psychoanalytic theory of farce / Barbara Freedman

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